Improvement in fare-boxes for omnibuses



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WILLIAM around, Aor ori-rondo,` ILLiNo-Is.l

4Letters Patent No. 104,530, dateclJane'Ql, 1870.

` IMPRQVEMENTiufm-Boxes `PoR oMmBusns, ae.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

'lo all whom 'it 'may concern.- ,y

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Yonne, of Ghicago, in the county of Cook andlState of Illinois, have invented an Improved Money-'Box for Omnibnses, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereowhich will enable those skilled in lthe art to make and use the same,

reference being `had to the accompanying drawing and letters marked thereon making a part of this specification, in which-- v Figure 1 is a perspective representationof my invention as it is placedv in position in the seat of an omnibus.

` Figure, a broken vertical section of the lower part of the box.

Figure 3, a vertical section ofthe `pipe in which the rod for operating the lower valve is placed.

The present invention4 relates to an improvement in that classof money-boxes which are placed in om- Vnibuses 'and other suitable vehicles; and

Its nat-ure consists in providing the box' or ease with a flange for attaching it to the seat, and also with' a box-tube, whereby the rod-for working thervalve is so incased as not to be caught from the. inside of the omnibus, or tampered with by'passengers; while, at the same time, the driver is enabled to'llook` into the top of the .box and' see' what money is put in so as to give the proper change to the passengcr,as the whole is hereinafter fully described.

4A represents a broken viewof an omnibus seat, to which the liange of a case, B, is fixed, either by screws or otherwise. This case B is made of metal or other suitable material, 'and long enough to extend down to within convenient reach'. of the passengers inside of the vehicle. Inside of this box or case Bis placed a valve, T,

.which has a common construction. but which is atthat he may give the proper change.

This invention differs from those used in-cars, inastached to a rod, F, shown in all the igures, bymeans of a bent arm, N, iigs. 2 and 3,- fastening toit,sotl1at when the rod Fis raised, the valve T will. turn and drop what money there may be thereon intothe bottom part of case B, from which place it can' be removed by the propervoiriicer of the line, in the usual manner, the box being locked atK for security.

The. fare of any person in the omnibus is to be putin the opening at H, tig. 1, and the fare of any passenger on the top of the bus is to-be p-utmin the opening Kat D, the latter being capped over, so that rain, 86o.,

cannot enter.

A glass, I, is put in the box B above the lock K, so

` that the moneymay be seen from the inside, and a glass, E, is put over the top of the box, in order .that the driver may see what money is put in the box, so

much as it is so adapted that it can be operated by a driver from the outside of a vehicle, by means of the rod F, provided with a case, G; and inasmuch as it i projects through a drivers seat, A, and is secured by a projecting flange, G.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, s`

A-money-box for omnibuses and other .similar vehicles, consisting of an elongated box, B, which is provided with a flange, C, for fastening to the seatA, with an ineased rod, F, for operating the valve T, with a glass, E, at its top, and glasses I in its sides,

for the convenience of seeing moneyput in either of" Athe openings I). H.' as and for the purpose set forth.

i W." H.v YOUNG.

Witnesses:

. G. L. CHAPIN, E. E. GIBSON. L 

